I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.
LUCRETIA MOTTI grew up so thoroughly imbued with women’s rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.
More Lucretia Mott Quotes
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women’s rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.
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Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
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I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.
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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than ‘taking authority for truth.’
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Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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